Going Forth, The Nations Multiply
Unevenly
Despite wars, famines, and epidemics, Earth’s
population is booming ahead to new records--with no end insight.
Every day, the world adds enough people to populate a medium-sized city in
the US. In one month, the number of new world citizens equals the population of
New York City. Every year, there are 90 million more mouths to feed, more than
the total population of Germany.
Several factors are propelling
this rapid growth, including an element that is often overlooked: the huge
number of teenagers who are becoming mothers, particularly in the countries of
sub-Saharan Africa. In four African nations-- Niger, Mali, Sierra Leone, and
Ivory Coast -- 1 out of every 5 adolescent females of child bearing age has a
baby annually. The US Bureau of the Cens
A. will have the largest world population by 2020
B. have the highest reproductive rate in the world
C. are only modestly affected by AIDS
D. will have increasingly long life spans
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B. by
C. during
D. until
[单项选择] {{B}}TEXT B{{/B}} Since the Titanic vanished
beneath the frigid waters of the North Atlantic 85 years ago, nothing in the
hundreds of books and films about the ship has ever hinted at a connection to
Japan -- until now. Director James Cameron’s ’200 million epic Titanic premiered
at the Tokyo International Fihn Festival last Saturday. Among the audience for a
glimpse of Hollywood’s costliest film ever descendants of the liner’s only
Japanese survivor. The newly rediscovered diary of Masabumix
Hosono has Titanic enthusiasts in a frenzy, the document is scrawled in 4,300
Japanese character on a rare piece of RMS Titanic stationery. Written as the
Japanese bureaucrat steamed to safety in New York aboard the ocean liner
Carpathia, which rescued 706 survivors, the account and other documents released
by his grandchildren last week offer a fresh -- and poignant -- reminder of the
emotional wreckage left by the tragedy. Hosono, A. Masabumix Hosono. B. Yuriko. C. Cameron. D. RMS.
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Roger Rosenblatt’s book Black Fiction,
in attempting to apply literary rather than sociopolitical criteria to its
subject, successfully alters the approach taken by most previous studies. As
Rosenblatt notes, criticism of Black writing has often served as a pretext for
illustrating Black history. Addison Gayle’s recent work, for instance, judges
the value of Black fiction by overtly political standards, rating each work
according to the notions of Black identity that it propounds.
Although fiction assuredly springs from political circumstances, its
authors react to those circumstances in ways other than ideological, and talking
about novels and stories primarily as instruments of ideology avoids cleverly
much of the fictional enterprise. Rosenblatt’s literary analysis discloses ties
and connections among works of Black fictio
A. An analysis of the influence of political events on the personal ideology of Black writers.
B. A critical study that applies sociopolitical criteria to autobiographies by Black authors.
C. A literary study of Black poetry that appraises the merits of poems according to the political acceptability of their themes.
D. An examination of the growth of a distinct Black literary tradition within the context of Black history.
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While no woman has been President of
the United States, yet the world does have several thousand years of experience
with female leaders, and I have to acknowledge it: their historical record puts
men’s to shame.
A notable share of the great leaders in history
have been women: Queen Hatshepsut and Cleopatra of Egypt, Empress Wu Zetian of
China, Isabella of Castile, Queen Elizabeth I of England, Catherine the Great of
Russia, and Maria Theresa of Austria. Granted, I’m neglecting the likes of
Bloody Mary, but it’s still true that those women who climbed to power in
monarchies had an astonishingly high success rate.
Research by
political psychologists points to possible explanations. Scholars find that
women, compared with men, tend to excel in consensus-building and certain other
skills useful in
A. is impossible to be eliminated among the general public.
B. can be eliminated when objective standards are given.
C. can be overcome when people have knowledge of their real accomplishments.
D. is the only reason why female leaders are less impressive in democratic era.
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